ďJeremy Corbynís
statement that any discussions
with the government will only
take place provided that Ďno
dealí is taken off the table is
not only deplorable but an act
of betrayal of both socialist
principle and a betrayal of the
democratic vote of the British
people and the 60 per cent of
Labour constituencies who voted
to leave the European Union
including its corrupt Customs
Union, itís rigged Single Market
and itís unacceptable Free
Movement of workers and Capital.
His appalling abandonment of his
previous position would have
been condemned by the late Tony
Benn; Michael Foot and is
condemned by me who for over 40
years regarded him as a comrade
and friend. No More.Ē (Arthur
Scargill)

18.01.2019 Ė
Takis Fotopoulosís response

I just heard
Arthur Scargillís statement on
the disgusting (though far from
unexpected) siding of Corbyn
with those in the Labour Party
and the Establishment at large,
who desperately strive to rule
out ďno dealĒ, i.e. the only
outcome of the deliberately
created Brexit crisis that
really frightens them. I fully
agree that Corbynís stand is an
act of betrayal of both
socialist principle and of the
democratic vote of the British
people who voted for Brexit. I
would add that it is also a
betrayal of the struggle for
social liberation going on all
over Europe at the moment, as it
is particularly shown by the
gilets jaunes (yellow vests)
movement in France, which faces
today the same brutal state
repression as the minersí
movement in the 1980ís that led
to the collapse of the working
class movement and of the Left
in general. The aim of the
elites today is similar: to
crush the movements for national
sovereignty as a precondition
for social liberation, which,
starting with Brexit, have
flourished all over Europe and
beyond, inspiring the victims of
globalization everywhere!

Socialist Labour
Party Leader Arthur Scargill,
speaking in South Yorkshire,
outlined the case from the left
for British withdrawal.

"Britain's
membership of the EU had
virtually destroyed our major
industries ― the latest victim
being British Steel ― while
devastating the NHS, starving
education and virtually
eliminating council housing. The
policy and austerity measures of
EU directives have destroyed
jobs and communities, spreading
hardship and poverty ever wider
yet the banks received a
multi-billion pound bailout.
Britain's loss of sovereignty is
such that unless we leave the
European Union the crisis, both
economic and social, will get
worse".

Mr Scargill
lambasted the free movement of
both labour and capital,
which have resulted in the
destruction of British Industry,
zero-hours contracts,
unemployment, homelessness and
poverty not seen in Britain
since the 1930s. He said: "What
is needed is a policy in line
with the economic principles
that prevailed for a short
period after 1945: we need
import controls and subsidies to
stop imports including goods
produced in intolerable
conditions by slave and child
labour".

He continued:
"Immigrants, particularly from
former British colonies, and
asylumseekers in need of refuge
are not the cause of the
economic crisis and the massive
population increase in Britain.
Last year, for example, the
number of immigrants and asylum
seekers entering Britain was
only 250,000 whilst 350,000
British citizens emigrated
― in
other words a net outflow of
100,000. However in the same
year, the free movement of
labour
― a fundamental principle
enshrined in Article 45 of the
EU Treaty
― resulted in over
550,000 citizens from amongst
the 30 countries permitted to do
so by the EU entering the UK
'freely'. It is this free
movement of labour which has
created a crisis both economic
and social
― and political.

He slammed the
Labour Party leadership, both
past and present, for its policy
of remaining in the EU and
working for "improvements". "The
current Labour Party
leadership's policy is a
betrayal of socialist principle
and a betrayal of all those in
the Labour and Trades Union
Movement who campaigned in 1975
for a 'No' vote. I was centrally
involved, along with Tony Benn,
in that campaign".

"In the
forthcoming referendum, the
people of Britain are going to
have to decide whether we
continue to surrender our
sovereignty and become part of a
United States of Europe ― or
whether we get out of this
European Union hell and get back
into the world.

I call upon
everyone on 23 June to vote 'NO'
and restore Britain to the
British people."

24.06.2016
|
Socialist Labour Party welcomes
Britain's vote to leave the EU.
It will strengthen the struggle
for a better world

Socialists have
good cause to celebrate the
British people's decision to
come out of the European Union
and get back into the world. The
Socialist Labour Party's policy
and reasons for leaving the
European Union ― very different
from those of Tories or of UKIP ― have been vindicated by the
outcome of the Referendum.

The SLP has
always recognised the EU as an
engine of free-market globalised
capitalism. Membership of the EU
has inflicted horrendous
economic, social and political
damage to all working people
trapped within it. As for
Britain, 90% of our
manufacturing and key industries
have been wiped out with our
health, education and welfare
provision steadily wiped out. We
see the damage everywhere around
us in the need for food banks
and campaigns to protect
homeless families and hundreds
of individuals sleeping rough,
whilst high-cost sky-scrapers
shoot up to house billionaires
and blight our cities.

The decision by
the British people to 'come out'
of the unelected and
unaccountable bastion of the
European Union allows us to
renew the fight to restore all
the industries and services
privatised by Tory and Labour
Governments to public ownership
― but this time we must campaign
for true common and social
ownership and control: in our
badly damaged National Health
Service; our social services
including care for our elderly
and children; in our education
system; and we must demand the
restoration of council housing,
owned and controlled by local
authorities.

The vote to leave
the European Union is a
challenge to Britain's trade
union leaders to reflect the
views of their members on issues
such the abolition of Trident
and opposition to nuclear power
and fracking, alongside job
protection, wages, zero-hours
contracts, agency working and
privatisation. The Socialist
Labour Party has consistently
pointed out that EU membership
has eroded ― not protected ―
workers' rights.

European Union
directives and European Court of
Justice decisions have robbed us
of hard-won free collective
bargaining, the right to strike,
and attacked our pension rights.
We must now all join a fight to
overturn these injustices ― and
Britain's trade unions must give
a lead in recovering the rights
our forebears fought hard to
achieve.

The Socialist
Labour Party has consistently
made clear the fundamental
difference between immigration
and people seeking asylum, on
the one hand, and the massive
inflow of 'migrant labour' from
EU countries under the 'free
movement of labour'. Both before
and after the Lisbon Treaty in
2009 the number of
immigrants/asylum-seekers
entering Britain averaged
250,000 a year whilst the number
of people emigrating from
Britain averaged 350,000 a year.

On the other
hand, in 2014/2015 whilst
official figures recorded the
numbers of 'migrant workers'
entering Britain from EU
countries as 480,000, during
that same period the Government
issued 1,222,000 National
Insurance numbers ― to migrant
workers. This clearly shows that
over 1.2 million EU 'migrant
workers' entered Britain in
2014/2015.

The massive
increase in the numbers entering
Britain are a direct result of
the European Union's central
policy of free movement of
labour and capital ― in other
words, a free-market philosophy.
The free movement of capital has
seen the destruction of key
industries such as our
automotive industry and heavy
and light engineering, whilst
all our key utilities such as
electricity, gas and water are
owned privately by foreign
companies (not to mention the
sell-off of our railways!). Our
coal and steel industries have
been or are being eliminated ―
yet Britain is importing Ė at an
enormous cost ― both steel and
coal, produced elsewhere through
subsidies and/or by slave
(including child) labour.

The Socialist
Labour Party has always argued
that Britain's economy will
thrive when it leaves the
European Union and gets 'back
into the world'. EU membership
has left us with a trade deficit
of between £60 and £100 billion
each year, whilst trade with
countries outside the EU has led
to a trade surplus of between
£30 and £50 billion per year.

We should extend
our trading arrangements not
only with the 53 Commonwealth
countries but with the 100 plus
other countries outside the
European Union while maintaining
trade on a fair basis ― not a
free-market basis ― with the 27
countries inside the EU.

In the Referendum
campaign we have witnessed the
majority of Tory MPs desperate
to remain within the European
Union monolith, which is
incidentally on the brink of
settling an iniquitous free
trade agreement ― TTIP ― with
the United States. The
Referendum campaign has exposed
the collaborationist philosophy
of the Labour Party with a
majority of its Members of
Parliament and its Leader shown
to be completely out of touch
with the problems facing their
constituents.

Statements by
Jeremy Corbyn (long admired as a
Socialist campaigner/politician)
that he is now in favour of a
'mixed economy' show an
abandonment of principle and a
betrayal of those Socialists who
gave birth to the Labour Party
in 1918. It is beyond dispute
that the present day Labour
Party and its Leader, Jeremy
Corbyn, are pursuing the same
collaborationist policies as
other social democratic parties
in Germany, France, Italy, Spain
and Greece.

The result of the
Referendum and the Socialist
Labour Party's campaigning
should persuade people to join
our party and its fight for a
Socialist future, for our
children and our grand-children.

23.09.2017 | Brexit: Scargill Calls on May to
Resign!

Following the
Prime Minister's announcement
that the government will seek to
maintain Britain's membership of
the single market until 2021,
SLP Leader Arthur Scargill says
he believes the political
establishment is preparing to
betray the democratically
expressed will of the British
people. He called upon Mrs May
to resign.

The full text of
Arthur's statement:

"

Theresa Mayís
announcement that the Government
is prepared to keep Britain in
the European Union for a further
four years is a betrayal on a
par with Chamberlainís sell out
to Hitler in 1938.

It is the ĎWill
of the Peopleí expressed in 2016
to get out of the EU and back
into the world which has been
betrayed so shamelessly.

The Prime
Ministerís announcement means
that for at least another four
years the UK is saddled with
ĎFree Movementí, the Customs
Union, Single Market and
continuing political control
exercised by an unelected body
in Brussels.

The British
people voted against continuing
to pay £10 billion a year to the
EU and maintaining a trade
deficit of £60 billion.

May should
resign. The British People will
never forgive an act of such
treachery".

19.10.2017 | Scargill: Labourís Shameful EU
Betrayal

Britain should
have left the European Union on
Friday 24th June 2016. All that
was required was to invoke
Article 50 (1) in accordance
with Britain's own constitution.

I am appalled by
Jeremy Corbyn's u turn on this
fundamental issue. I together
with Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Benn
campaigned against Britain's
membership of the EU and against
every Treaty and Directive for
over sixty years.

Get out of the EU
NOW without any agreement with
an unelected bureaucratic bunch
of Ďblackmailersí.

02.03.2018
| No
Customs Union! No Single Market!

Jeremy Corbyn and
Keir Starmer ask how we protect
jobs in Britain without being
members of a customs union and a
single market. The answer is
simple.

Introduce import
controls in the same way that
the 1945-1951 Labour
Government did, and ironically
the same way as the United
States is now doing. Import
controls help build a
manufacturing base which was 80%
of Britainís GDP. It worked then
and it would work now to protect
British jobs.

The
implementation of import
controls is a Socialist answer
to anyone who is arguing for a
Capitalist customs union or
single European market.

23.09.2018
|
Second Referendum: Scargill
Condemns Betrayal!

The statement by
the Labour Party Leadership that
they would support a second
referendum is an act of
treachery for which they will
never be forgiven.

The ruling class
have used and will continue to
use every means including a
media which has sought to
overturn the decision of the
British people in the 2016
Referendum.

Tony Benn warned
that membership of the European
Union would mean that Britain
would be governed by a
Constitution which is committed
to Capitalism.

The ruling class
and the EU will demand another
referendum and another until
they get the result they want.

As a socialist I
call for all those who call
themselves socialists to condemn
this act of treachery by the
Labour Party Leaders and
campaign for withdrawal from
this bastion of Capitalism.

10.01.2019
|
Labour: The Betrayal Goes On!

The Labour Party
MPs and the Labour Party leaders
who voted yesterday to oppose a
'NO DEAL' are guilty of
betraying the British people and
betraying comrades such as Tony
Benn and Michael Foot who warned
that membership of the EEC and
later the European Union would
destroy our economy and hand
over our sovereignty to an
unelected body.

It would take
decisions and adopt laws which
are binding on all member
states, and more important
membership would bind Britain to
an EU which has a constitution
which commits all member states
to a Capitalist system.

I congratulate
Ronnie Campbell (a mining MP)
Graham Stringer and Kate Hoey
who were the only three to keep
the faith. The Labour Party
leadership should lead the fight
for a (NO DEAL) exit from this
rotten bureaucratic EU.